Grants:Project/Rapid/Abimaj/WikiSport
- Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata
Please see the sample Editathon/Training application before drafting your application.
Project Goal[edit]
Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed.
- Recruit staff of Nigerian Football Federation to the Wikimedia movement
- identify and create article on notable players of the Nigerian National Football team with no articles on Wikipedia
- Add photos to existing articles of players of Nigerian national football team on Wikipedia.
Project Plan[edit]
Activities[edit]
Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:
1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?
- Training: Organise two series of training with staff of the Nigerian Football Federation ( agency) on the use of Wikipedia.
- Mentoring: Mentor staff of the agency on how to add photos to Wikipedia pages without images.
- Editathon: organize an editathon to create articles for notable Nigerian football players without articles on Wikipedia and also improve articles without images on the focused group of people ( See below for the list)
- Photo release: Discuss the release of photos of the national team players with the agency to improve articles of the affected players of the national team.
2. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal? You are required to provide links to on-wiki pages to inform these communities about your proposed work. Examples of places where this can be done include community discussion pages, affiliate discussion pages, or relevant project talk pages.
I am working with the Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc to finalise discussion with the agency on the partnership.
I have informed the Nigerian community on its talk page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria#Introducing_WikiSport_to_Nigeria_Community and Whatsapp page https://chat.whatsapp.com/DzyNJFryYIU44gq3RzU9nw
You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.
3. How will you let participants know about the edit-a-thon? In what ways will you be communicating with them?
For example, these can include on-wiki spaces, social media channels, mailing lists, messaging apps, or physical/online gatherings.
- As mentioned above, I have met with the mentioned agency through the assistant of the Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc. and they have shown interest in the prfoposed partnership.
4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.
For example: User:I JethroBT
5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?
- The participants are new biews, so, the mentioned experienced Wikipedians will help with the training.
6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?
- We plan to create to create a whatsapp/telegram channels for mentoring the newly recruit/training participants
7. Are you running any in-person events or activities? If so, you will need to complete the steps outlined on the Risk Assessment protocol related to COVID-19. When you have completed these steps, please provide a link to your completed copy of the risk assessment tool below:
- Yes, this is the link here
8. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?
- The Nigeria Football Federation is the agency in-charge of football administration. They are the custodian of photos of all the national team players.
- This project intend to work with the agency for the release of the images to improve the list of players that i have identified.
- I have also identified name of players of the Nigerian national team with article but without photos on Wikipedia
Photo-Gap[edit]
Impact[edit]
How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:
- Number of events: 2
- Number of participants: 25
- Number of new editors: 20
- Number of of articles created : 10
- Nummber of photos to be realeased and use on Wikipesia: over 100 images will be used to improve articles without images ( See list below)
- Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)20
Resources[edit]
What resources do you have? Include information on who is organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).
- Kaizenify is an experienced Wikimedian with experinec in event management
- T Cells is the co-founder and project manager of WPWP, photo content.
- Olaniyan Olushola Experienced project manager.
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.
- Venue (at a subsidized amount for the two days due to an existing partnership with the school as the fee only covered the power, screen and sounds: $236.38
- Internet = $78.79
- Branded Wikipedia shirts(for 4 facilitators and 3 best participants: 10.50 * 6 = $73.5
- Online digital banner and Photography coverage (camera rental) = $131.32
- Food and drinks, Tea & buscuit: $14.47 * 25 * 2days = $723.5
- Local transport for facilitators travelling: $52.53 * 3 = $157.59
- Accomodation: $47.27 * 3 * 2 nights = $283.62
- Participant packs (folder, Wrist bands, pen, wikidata cheatsheet, stickers) = 5.77 * 25 = $144.45
- Certificate of participation = 2.62 * 25 = $65.66
- Miscellaneous(Logistics, Bank charges, Disposable masks) = $39.39
Total budget = $1,934.41
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